President Barack Obama spoke with “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for an interview airing Thursday and took the opportunity to let the show’s host know he doesn’t think much of the Oscar selfie she took that broke his Twitter record.

“I heard about that. I thought it was a pretty cheap stunt myself,” Obama told the talk show host. “Getting a bunch of celebrities in the background, you’re feeding them pizza.”

DeGeneres brought up the tweet during her interview with the president, who appeared on her show via satellite to talk about Obamacare. While hosting the Oscars earlier this month, a selfie DeGeneres took and tweeted broke Obama’s record for the most retweeted message ever in less than an hour.

The more than 10-minute interview touched on everything from the selfie, to HealthCare.gov, to Obama’s shopping trip to The Gap, to how much his life resembles Washington-themed dramas like “House of Cards” and “Scandal.”

“I watch ‘House of Cards.’ I haven’t seen ‘Scandal’ yet, but Michelle has watched ‘Scandal.’ I have to tell you, life in Washington is a little more boring than displayed on the screen,” Obama said. “The truth of the matter is, if you followed me, most of my day is sitting in a room listening to a bunch of folks in gray suits talking about a whole bunch of stuff that wouldn’t make very good television.”

DeGeneres cracked that that’s what she does all day, and it makes “great television.”

“I have to tell you, though, Ellen, there is not much dancing in the Situation Room, as a general rule,” Obama quipped back, referencing DeGeneres’s famous moves.

It was the president’s first appearance on DeGeneres’s show since he took office, although his wife, Michelle, has made some famous appearances on the show, a fact that did not escape her notice.

In introducing the president to her audience, DeGeneres noted her friend Michelle was out of town and wanted DeGeneres to check in on her husband.

“So she gave me a list of questions and asked me if I would check on him and see if he’s doing things. Let’s see if he’s there — Michelle’s husband, are you there?” DeGeneres asked as Obama appeared on screen to cheers from the audience.

On behalf of Michelle, she said, DeGeneres asked if he’d made his bed.

“That would be no. And when she’s out of town, things get a little slovenly around the house, socks everywhere, shoes,” Obama said, as DeGeneres pressed on with her questions. “I did exercise. I did eat, and I ate healthy, and I had some carrot sticks along with the potato chips.”

When the interview was taped, the first lady and daughters Malia and Sasha were on their way to China, where they are spending a week to emphasize education.

“She hasn’t landed yet, but the house is abandoned. I’m stuck with two dogs and I’m expected to walk them and do what you do when you walk dogs,” Obama said. “But I think they’re going to have a wonderful time.”

Obama also talked about his daughters, saying they are “doing wonderfully.”

“They’re doing great in school and they’re smart and they’re funny and they’re kind and they’re athletic, and so I really have no complaints except for the fact that increasingly they don’t have that much time for me,” Obama said. “I am not that interesting. They’re nice about it though, because they love me, so they’ll come in and they’ll pat me on the head and they’ll kiss me and they’ll say, ‘Oh Daddy, we love you so much,’ and they’ll talk to me for about five minutes, and then they’ll say, ‘We’re going to be gone all weekend.’ So that’s making me a little sad.”

But in the dad department, Obama thinks his recent shopping trip at The Gap, where he bought some sweaters for his girls, went well.

“I thought they were pretty nice sweaters,” Obama said. “And Malia and Sasha, they did not scowl when I brought them in, which was a good sign. I mean, they didn’t immediately say ‘Ew. That’s terrible.’ I have not yet seen them wear them, but I’m hoping that I make the cut.”

During the interview, Obama promoted open enrollment and encouraged people to sign up for coverage or get their loved ones to sign up, “especially moms.” DeGeneres praised Obamacare and said it was going “very, very well.”